1891 in music

Events

• February 23 - Fourteen-year-old cellist Pablo Casals gives a solo recital in Barcelona.^[1]
• March 16 - A performance of the Budapest Opera is interrupted by a spontaneous demonstration in support of musical director Gustav Mahler, at the time in conflict with intendant Géza Zichy and already negotiating for a position elsewhere.
• May 5 - The Music Hall in New York City (which becomes Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky guest-conducting his own work.
• May 10 - Danish classical composer Carl Nielsen marries his compatriot, the sculptor Anne Marie Brodersen, in St Mark's English Church, Florence, Italy, the couple having first met on March 2 in Paris.
• October 16 - The Chicago Symphony Orchestra gives its inaugural concert.
• The Peabody Mason Concerts are inaugurated with a performance by Ferruccio Busoni.
• The ensemble attached to the Glasgow Choral Union is formally recognised as the Scottish Orchestra, predecessor of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.^[2]

Published popular music

• "Actions Speak Louder Than Words" w. George Horncastle m. Felix McGlennon
• "Don't mind, my Darling!" w.m. Paul Steinmark
• "Hey, Rube!" w. J. Sherrie Matthews m. Harry Bulger
• "High School Cadets March" m. John Philip Sousa
• "Little Boy Blue" w. Eugene Field m. Ethelbert Nevin
• "The Man Who Broke The Bank At Monte Carlo" w.m. Fred Gilbert
• "The Miner's Dream Of Home" w.m. Will Godwin & Leo Dryden
• "Molly O!" w.m. William J. Scanlan
• "Narcissus" m. Ethelbert Nevin
• "The Pardon Came Too Late" w.m. Paul Dresser
• "The Picture That's Turned To The Wall" w.m. Charles Graham
• "Reuben And Cynthia" w.m. Percy Gaunt
• "Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay" w.m. Henry J. Sayers
• "Wot Cher!" w. Albert Chevalier m. Charles Ingle

Recorded popular music

• "The Laughing Song" - George W. Johnson

Classical music

• Anton Arensky - Cantata on the 10th Anniversary of the Coronation
• Johannes Brahms - Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, Opus 115
• Max Bruch - Concerto for Violin No. 3
• Carl Nielsen - Fantasy Pieces for Oboe and Piano
• Ethelbert Nevin - Water Scenes
• Erik Satie - 6 Gnossiennes for Piano

Opera

• Frederick Delius - Irmelin
• Robert Fuchs - Die Teufelsglocke
• Miguel Marqués - El monaguillo (libretto by Emilio Sánchez Pastor, premiered in Madrid)
• Emile Pessard - Les folies amoureuses premiered on April 15 at the Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique, Paris

Musical theater

• Robin Hood, Broadway production
• The Tyrolean, Broadway production
• Der Vogelhändler (The Tyrolean), Vienna production

Top hits

• "The Laughing Song" by George Washington Johnson

Births

• January 25 - Wellman Braud, jazz musician (died 1966)
• February 5 - Dino Borgioli, operatic tenor (died 1960)
• March 22 - Alexis Roland-Manuel, French composer and critic (died 1966)
• March 28 - Leah Frances Russell, Australian opera singer (died 1983)
• April 2 - Jack Buchanan, Scottish singer, actor, dancer and director (died 1957)
• April 23 - Sergei Prokofiev, composer (died 1953)
• May 16 - Richard Tauber, Austrian singer (died 1948)
• May 30 - Ben Bernie, US bandleader (died 1943)
• June 3 - Georges Guibourg, French singer, actor and writer (died 1970)
• June 9 - Cole Porter, songwriter (died 1964)
• June 10 - Al Dubin, Swiss-born American lyricist (died 1945)
• June 21 - Hermann Scherchen, German conductor (died 1966)
• July 14 - Fréhel, French singer and actress (died 1951)
• July 16 - Blossom Seeley, US singer and vaudeville performer (died 1974)
• August 2 - Arthur Bliss, composer (died 1975)
• September 11 - Noël Gallon, French composer and music educator (died 1966)
• September 14 - Czesław Marek, Polish composer, pianist, and piano teacher (died 1985)
• September 26 - Charles Munch, Alsatian symphonic conductor and violinist (died 1968)
• October 1 - Morfydd Llwyn Owen, Welsh singer and composer (died 1918)
• October 29 - Fanny Brice, US actress, comedian and singer (died 1951)
• November 27 - Giovanni Breviario, operatic tenor (died 1982)
• date unknown
  • Charles McCarron, composer and lyricist (died 1919)
  • Margaret Morris, dancer and choreographer (died 1980)

Deaths

• January 5 - Emma Abbott, singer (born 1850)
• January 8 - Fredrik Pacius, composer and conductor (born 1809)
• January 17 - Johannes Verhulst, conductor and composer (born 1816)
• January 16 - Léo Delibes, composer (born 1836)
• January 21 - Calixa Lavallée, composer (born 1842)
• May 23 - Ignace Leybach, pianist, organist and composer (born 1817)
• June 14 - Count Nicolò Gabrielli, Italian opera composer (born 1814
• July 3 - Stefano Golinelli, pianist and composer (born 1818)
• July 21 - Franco Faccio, composer and conductor (born 1840)
• August 5/6 - Henry Litolff, keyboard virtuoso and composer (born 1818)
• October 27
  • Charles Constantin, conductor (born 1835)
  • Johann Dubez, Viennese violinist and composer (born 1828)
• November 9 - Frederick Mathushek, piano maker (born 1814)
• November 20 - Franz Hitz, Swiss pianist and composer (born 1828)
• December 28 - Alfred Cellier, composer (born 1844)
• date unknown
  • Harvey B. Dodworth, bandmaster and conductor (born 1822)^[3]
  • Fanny Salvini-Donatelli, operatic soprano (born c.1815)

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